the Best Young Player (currently commercially termed as “Hyundai Best Young Player”) award for best player under 21 years of age at the start of the calendar year, first awarded in 2006.

the FIFA Fair Play Trophy for the team with the best record of fair play (first awarded in 1970);

the Most Entertaining Team award for the team that has entertained the public the most, during the World Cup final tournament, as determined by a poll of the general public, first awarded in 1994.

An All-Star Team (currently commercially termed “Mastercard All-Star Team”) comprising the best players of the tournament, is also announced for each tournament since 1990.

Golden Ball

The Golden Ball award is presented to the best player at each FIFA World Cup finals, with a shortlist drawn up by the FIFA technical committee and the winner voted for by representatives of the media. Those who finish as runners-up in the vote receive the adidas Silver Ball and Bronze Ball awards as the second and third most outstanding players in the tournament respectively.

World Cup

Golden Ball

Silver Ball

Bronze Ball

1930 Uruguay

José Nasazzi

Guillermo Stábile

José Leandro Andrade

1934 Italy

Giuseppe Meazza

Matthias Sindelar

Oldřich Nejedlý

1938 France

Leônidas

Silvio Piola

György Sárosi

1950 Brazil

Zizinho[1]

Juan Schiaffino

Ademir

1954 Switzerland

Ferenc Puskás

Sándor Kocsis

Fritz Walter [4]

1958 Sweden

Didi[2][3][4]

Pelé

Just Fontaine

1962 Chile

Garrincha[5]

Josef Masopust

Leonel Sánchez

1966 England

Bobby Charlton

Bobby Moore

Eusébio

1970 Mexico

Pelé

Wolfgang Overath

Carlos Alberto Torres

1974 West Germany

Johan Cruijff

Franz Beckenbauer

Kazimierz Deyna

1978 Argentina

Mario Kempes

Paolo Rossi

Dirceu

The above table is unverified and needs references. The FIFA website only lists winners from 1982 onwards, while for Best Young Player (first awarded in 2006) it lists winners dating back to 1958. This is due to an internet survey conducted by FIFA where the vote was given to the fans. Such a survey was never done for the Golden Ball.

This award was first awarded in 1982.

World Cup

Golden Ball

Silver Ball

Bronze Ball

1982 Spain

Paolo Rossi

Falcão

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

1986 Mexico

Diego Maradona

Harald Schumacher

Preben Elkjær

1990 Italy

Salvatore Schillaci

Lothar Matthäus

Diego Maradona

1994 USA

Romário

Roberto Baggio

Hristo Stoichkov

1998 France

Ronaldo

Davor Šuker

Lilian Thuram

2002 Korea/Japan

Oliver Kahn

Ronaldo

Hong Myung-Bo

2006 Germany

Zinedine Zidane

Fabio Cannavaro

Andrea Pirlo

2010 South Africa

Diego Forlán

Wesley Sneijder

David Villa

Golden Boot

The Golden Boot or Golden Shoe Award goes to the top goalscorer of the FIFA World Cup. It was introduced at the 1930 FIFA World Cup.

If there is more than one player with the same amount of goals, the tie-breaker goes to the player who has contributed the most assists (with the FIFA Technical Study Group deciding whether an assist is to be counted as such). If there is still more than one player, the tie-breaker goes to the player who has played the least amount of time.[6]

Since FIFA and adidas became partners over 30 years ago, the award’s official name is “adidas Golden Shoe”.

World Cup

Golden Shoe

Goals

Silver Shoe

Goals

Bronze Shoe

Goals

1982 Spain

Paolo Rossi

6

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

5

Zico Zbigniew Boniek

4

1986 Mexico

Gary Lineker

6

Diego Maradona Careca Emilio Butragueño

5

Jorge Valdano Preben Elkjaer Larsen Alessandro Altobelli Igor Belanov

4

1990 Italy

Salvatore Schillaci

6

Tomáš Skuhravý

5

Roger Milla Gary Lineker Lothar Matthäus Míchel

4

1994 USA

Hristo Stoichkov Oleg Salenko(4)

6

Romário Jürgen Klinsmann Roberto Baggio Kennet Andersson

5

Gabriel Batistuta Florin Răducioiu Martin Dahlin

4

1998 France

Davor Šuker

6

Gabriel Batistuta Christian Vieri

5

Ronaldo Marcelo Salas Luis Hernández

4

2002 South Korea/Japan

Ronaldo

8(5)

Rivaldo Miroslav Klose

5

Jon Dahl Tomasson Christian Vieri

4

2006 Germany

Miroslav Klose

5

Hernán Crespo

3

Ronaldo

3

2010 South Africa

Thomas Müller

5(6)

David Villa

5

Wesley Sneijder

5

1 FIFA initially credited Nejedlý with only four goals, which would make him joint top scorer with Angelo Schiavio of Italy and Edmund Conen of Germany. However, FIFA changed it to five goals in November 2006, making Nejedlý the outright top scorer.[9]

2 FIFA initially credited Leônidas with eight goals. However, in November 2006, FIFA confirmed that in the quarter-final tie against Czechoslovakia, he scored once, not twice as FIFA had originally recorded, meaning he scored only seven goals in total.[9] Moreover, in some sources, Leônidas was mis-credited one Brazilian goal in the first-round match against Poland, scoring four goals instead of three in the match.

3 There was controversy regarding how many goals Brazilian Ademir Menezes scored in 1950, because of incomplete data concerning the Final Round game Brazil vs. Spain (6:1). The first goal had been credited as an own goal by Spanish defender Parra, and the 5:0 goal had been credited to Jair. However, recently FIFA credited Ademir with both these goals.[10] The next highest scorers in the World Cup scored five goals each.

4 Salenko is the only player to win the award playing for a team that were eliminated in the group stages. His six goals are the only international goals he ever scored.

5 During the tournament, after the group stage match against Costa Rica, Ronaldo logged a protest against the crediting of a goal as own goal, and FIFA granted him the change.[11]

6 Müller, Villa, Sneijder and Diego Forlán tied with 5 goals. Müller won by virtue of having more assists (3) than the rest (each had 1). Villa won Silver due to playing fewer minutes than Sneidjer, and Sneijder won Bronze for having played fewer minutes than Forlán.[12]

Golden Glove

The Golden Glove Award is awarded to the best goalkeeper of the tournament. Before 2010, the award was named the Yashin Award in honour of the late goalkeeper Lev Yashin (USSR). The FIFA Technical Study Group recognizes the top goalkeeper of the tournament based on the player’s performance throughout the final competition. Although goalkeepers have this specific award for their position, they are still eligible for the Golden Ball as well, as when Oliver Kahn was awarded in 2002. Although the Golden Glove Award was first awarded in 1994, every All-Star Team in World Cups prior to 1998 included only one goalkeeper.

World Cup

Goalkeeper included in the All-Star Team

1930 Uruguay

Enrique Ballesteros

1934 Italy

Ricardo Zamora

1938 France

František Plánička

1950 Brazil

Roque Máspoli

1954 Switzerland

Gyula Grosics

1958 Sweden

Harry Gregg

1962 Chile

Viliam Schrojf

1966 England

Gordon Banks

1970 Mexico

Ladislao Mazurkiewicz

1974 West Germany

Jan Tomaszewski

1978 Argentina

Ubaldo Fillol

1982 Spain

Dino Zoff

1986 Mexico

Harald Schumacher

1990 Italy

Sergio Goycochea

The Yashin Award was first awarded in 1994.

World Cup

Yashin Award winner

1994 USA

Michel Preud’homme

1998 France

Fabien Barthez

2002 Korea/Japan

Oliver Kahn

2006 Germany

Gianluigi Buffon

The award was renamed the Golden Glove Award in 2010.

World Cup

Golden Glove Award winner

2010 South Africa

Iker Casillas

Best Young Player Award

The Best Young Player award was awarded for the first time at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany and given to Germany’s Lukas Podolski[13]. The award is given to the best player in the tournament who is at most 21 years old. For the 2006 FIFA World Cup this meant that the player had to have been born on or after 1 January 1985. The election took place on FIFA’s official World Cup website with the help of The FIFA Technical Study Group.

FIFA organized a survey on the Internet for users to choose the “best young player” of the World Cup, between 1958 and 2002, named the best young player of each tournament.[14] With 61% of the overall vote, the winner was Pelé, who finished ahead of the Peruvian Teófilo Cubillas, the best young player at Mexico 1970, and England’s Michael Owen, who reached similar heights at France 98.[15]

World Cup

Young Player

Age

1958 Sweden

Pelé

17

1962 Chile

Flórián Albert

20

1966 England

Franz Beckenbauer

20

1970 Mexico

Teofilo Cubillas

21

1974 West Germany

Władysław Żmuda

20

1978 Argentina

Antonio Cabrini

20

1982 Spain

Manuel Amoros

21

1986 Mexico

Enzo Scifo

20

1990 Italy

Robert Prosinečki

21

1994 USA

Marc Overmars

21

1998 France

Michael Owen

18

2002 Korea/Japan

Landon Donovan

20

The Best Young Player Award was first awarded in 2006.

World Cup

Best Young Player Award

Age

2006 Germany

Lukas Podolski

21

2010 South Africa

Thomas Müller [16]

20

FIFA Best Young Players Winners [5]

FIFA Fair Play Trophy

The FIFA Fair Play Trophy is given to the team with the best record of fair play during the World Cup final tournament. Only teams that qualified for the second round are considered. The winners of this award earn the FIFA Fair Play Trophy, a diploma, a fair play medal for each player and official, and $50,000 worth of football equipment to be used for youth development.[17]

The appearance of the award was originally a certificate but from 1982-1994 it had been a golden trophy based on Sport Billy, a well known football-playing cartoon character from 1982 who became an icon for FIFA Fair play. More recently it is simply a trophy with an elegant footballer figure. Peru was the first nation to win the award after receiving no yellow or red cards in the 1970 FIFA World Cup held in Mexico.[18]

Peru’s FIFA Fair Play trophy award. Peru won the award after receiving no yellow or red cards in the tournament.

World Cup

FIFA Fair Play Trophy Winners

1970 Mexico

Peru

1978 Argentina

Argentina

1982 Spain

Brazil

1986 Mexico

Brazil

1990 Italy

England

1994 USA

Brazil

1998 France

England France

2002 Korea/Japan

Belgium

2006 Germany

Brazil Spain

2010 South Africa

Spain

Most Entertaining Team

The FIFA Award for the Most Entertaining Team is a fairly new accolade for the FIFA World Cup. It is a subjectively awarded prize for the team which has done the most to entertain the public with a positive approach to the game. The award is always organized through public participation in a poll.

World Cup

Most Entertaining Team Award

1994 USA

Brazil

1998 France

France

2002 Korea/Japan

Korea Republic

2006 Germany

Portugal

FIFA Awards for Most Entertaining Team [6]

All-Star Team

The All-Star Team, currently named after its current sponsor MasterCard All-Star Team, is a team of the best 23 players, chosen by FIFA’s technical study group, from the World Cup Finals. The number of players was expanded from 11 to 16 at the 1998 finals, and then to the current 23. Before 1998, journalists and experts chose a “Dream Team” with outstanding players from each playing position. The teams were chosen mostly by European and South American journalists.

Only two players have been named in three separate All-Star teams: Franz Beckenbauer of West Germany, who was included in 1966, 1970, and 1974, and Djalma Santos in 1954, 1958 and 1962. 18 others have been named to two separate All-Star teams: Luis Monti (1930 and 1934; however, in 1930, he was representing Argentina while in 1934 he represented Italy); Garrincha (1958 and 1962); Pelé (1958 and 1970); Bobby Charlton (1966 and 1970); Teofilo Cubillas (1970 and 1978); Ruud Krol and Rob Rensenbrink (1974 and 1978); Berti Vogts (1974 and 1978); Paolo Rossi (1978 and 1982); Michel Platini (1982 and 1986); Diego Maradona (1986 and 1990); Paolo Maldini (1990 and 1994); Dunga (1994 and 1998); Roberto Carlos, Rivaldo, and Ronaldo (1998 and 2002); Lilian Thuram and Zinedine Zidane (1998 and 2006); Michael Ballack and Miroslav Klose (2002 and 2006).

Pelé is the only player to be named in All-Star teams 12 years apart (1958 and 1970).

Italy in 2006, Uruguay in 1930 and 1950, and Germany in 2006 are the only teams to have had a player in every position on the All-Star Team.

Uruguay in 1930 and Italy in 2006 have the most players elected to the All-Star Team with 7 players each.

34 different Brazilian players were named in All-Star teams, Brazil is also the nation with most nominations with 42 nominees.

Only two Asian players have been named in All-Star teams, Hong Myung-Bo and Yoo Sang-Chul of South Korea. Both were selected in 2002.

Uniquely, brothers Brian Laudrup and Michael Laudrup were both selected for the All Star Team from Denmark in 1998 FIFA World Cup.